Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union / Erica L. Fraser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fraser, Erica L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity--History.

Masculinity.

Militarism--Soviet Union--History--20th century.

Militarism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Catastrophic wartime casualties and postwar discomfort with the successes of women who had served in combat roles combined to shatter prewar ideals about what service meant for Soviet masculine identity. The soldier had to be re-imagined and resold to a public that had just emerged from the Second World War, and a younger generation suspicious of state control. In doing so, Soviet military culture wrote women out and attempted to re-establish soldiering as the premier form of masculinity in society. Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union combines textual and visual analysis, as well as archival research to highlight the multiple narratives that contributed to rebuilding military identities. Each chapter visits a particular site of this reconstruction, including debates about conscription and evasion, appropriate role models for cadets, misogynist military imagery in cartoons, the fraught militarized workplaces of nuclear physicists, and the first cohort of cosmonauts, who represented the completion of the project to rebuild militarized masculinity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

A Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Part One: Military Masculinity and the Postwar Armed Forces

1. Conscripting Soviet Manhood

2. Looking for Role Models in Education and Literature

Part Two: Military Masculinity outside the Armed Forces during the Early Cold War

3. Gender and Militarism in Foreign Affairs Cartoons

4. Telling Manly Stories about Nuclear Physics

5. Military Masculinity and the Cosmonaut Brotherhood

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

1-4426-2472-8

1-4426-2471-X

OCLC:

1091899756